A NEW INDIGENOUS UNIVERSITY IN THE RAINFOREST IN COLOMBIA – studio documentation

“My interpretation of the Indigenous University is represented by the black jaguar that inhabits the space of the sacred points between the Andes and the Amazon. It is the protective spirit that day by day safeguards this region in the thoughts of our elders, the guardians of the ancestral knowledge of the Inga People. Seen from space, the University has the form of a jaguar in the state of “samai,” at rest. In Inga cosmology, the black jaguar is an important symbol of knowledge, of harmony, of infinity and is the color of the Earth who embraces us and gives us life. That is why it is so important that the house of knowledge and wisdom in our territory is embraced by the spirituality of our jaguar as the guardian of such sacred, strategic and emblematic territories in terms of biocultural wealth and a political ecology of peace.”

Hernando Chindoy Chindoy,
leader of the Indigenous Inga People of Colombia

Studio documentation of winter semester 2019 and summer semester 2020

extract of the documentation > here